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Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens National Networking Day

Posted on September 7, 2010 | Comments Off on Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens National Networking Day

The Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens are hav­ing their National Networking Event on Friday, October 8th 2010 at Battleby, near Perth.

Workshops include New Allotments; a look at dif­fer­ent allot­ments mod­els, Livestock on Community Gardens, Social Return on Investment, Selling Produce at Farmers Markets, Orchards, Wildlife Gardening in Winter, Community Gardening and the 2011 Elections, Risk Management and more!

There will be a chance to meet fun­ders, find out about bee­keep­ing, Care Farming, Planning Aid Scotland and hear case stud­ies from oth­er pro­jects. It’s a great oppor­tun­ity to net­work, meet like-minded people and share ideas.

For fur­ther inform­a­tion please con­tact naomi@farmgarden.org.uk Tel: 0131 623 7058 Deadline for applic­a­tions is Friday 16th September 2010.

You can down load book­ing forms at  http://www.farmgarden.org.uk/farms-gardens/your-region/scotland/506-news-a-events

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The first ever Portobello Organic Market!

Posted on August 10, 2010 | 8 Comments

basket of veg by Rosemary RatcliffWe now have a site, times and prices set for the mar­ket! The first one is on Saturday 4th September 10am to 2pm in Brighton Park, Brighton Place.  It is also Organic Fortnight and Scottish Food & Drink Fortnight, so more good reas­ons to come along and buy loads of lovely Scottish Organic pro­duce.  Have a look at the updated webpage for more info.  Details of stall hold­ers and enter­tain­ments will be pos­ted as they are confirmed.

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Next Food Group Meeting

Posted on August 3, 2010 | Comments Off on Next Food Group Meeting

The Next Meeting of the Food Group will be at 7pm in the Espy on the 30th August 2010.  Everyone Welcome!

This is an off­shoot of the old PEDAL food group which has now become the ‘orch­ard’ group.

The Food Group is some­where to share ideas about any­thing to do with grow­ing and eat­ing more loc­ally pro­duced organ­ic pro­duce in Portobello.  The Group also sup­port the PEDAL Food Workers with some of the CCF fun­ded food pro­jects: Portobello Organic Market, Fruitful Porty, The Edinburgh Garden Share Scheme, map­ping loc­al land that may be used for food grow­ing, and a feas­ib­il­ity study into some sort of com­munity sup­por­ted agri­cul­ture pro­ject (Portobello Community Farm).

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Summer Pruning course

Posted on July 19, 2010 | 1 Comment

Many folk would like to gain con­fid­ence in prun­ing fruit trees and fruit bushes. The Summer Pruning course to be run at the Community Orchard off Brunstane Road South on the even­ing (6.30pm‑8.30pm) of Thursday 19th of August is for those who want to learn how to get the most from their fruit trees etc by judi­cious prun­ing. Contact Peter Upton or Polly Cooke if you’d like to register for this one-off even­ing course. There’ll be a book­ing fee of £10 to reserve your place, though there’ll be no fur­ther cost.

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Bread Making course

Posted on July 19, 2010 | 2 Comments

If you are inter­ested in learn­ing how to bake your own bread, please con­tact Polly Cooke or Peter Upton at PEDAL. There will be a small charge for the course to cov­er mater­i­als and hire of premises, but we aim to keep this to a minimum.

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Water Saving event 28th July

Posted on July 16, 2010 | Comments Off on Water Saving event 28th July

7 – 8pm in Portobello Town Hall

FREE water sav­ing tools to use in your own home

FREE impar­tial advice on sav­ing energy water and money through water efficiency

The oppor­tun­ity to WIN a water effi­ciency makeover for your house

The aver­age house­hold spends around 30% of their gas bill on heat­ing water, which could be as much as £200 a year.

To find out how you could save money and reduce your car­bon foot­print please join us for some refresh­ments at Portobello Town hall  on 28th July 7 – 8pm.

If you can­’t make it along you can still find out about sav­ing water and money here.

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Water Saving event 28th July

Posted on July 16, 2010 | Comments Off on Water Saving event 28th July

7 – 8pm in Portobello Town Hall

FREE water sav­ing tools to use in your own home

FREE impar­tial advice on sav­ing energy water and money through water efficiency

The oppor­tun­ity to WIN a water effi­ciency makeover for your house

The aver­age house­hold spends around 30% of their gas bill on heat­ing water, which could be as much as £200 a year.

To find out how you could save money and reduce your car­bon foot­print please join us for some refresh­ments at Portobello Town hall  on 28th July 7 – 8pm.

If you can­’t make it along you can still find out about sav­ing water and money here.

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Telferton Allotment Open Day, 29th August

Posted on July 9, 2010 | Comments Off on Telferton Allotment Open Day, 29th August

Open day at Telferton Allotments

date for your diary, Sunday 29th August 2010.

Details to follow

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PEDAL Growing & Gardening Fair — THIS SATURDAY!

Posted on July 9, 2010 | 1 Comment

Saturday 7th August 2010

Portobello Town Hall

11am to 4pm

Experts Question Time at 2.30pm

As part of PEDAL’s Food pro­jects for 2010, we are hav­ing a Growing & Gardening Fair at the Town Hall.  Come along to this FREE event and find out more about grow­ing your own fruit & veget­ables, com­post­ing and more!

Stalls and advice to get you star­ted or help you out of a rut, plus Experts Question Time at 2.30pm.

Tea & Cakes!

There will be stalls on com­post­ing, inform­a­tion about organ­ic food, PEDAL food pro­jects, PEDAL Energy Projects and oth­ers. If you’ve ever wondered what the Guerilla Gardeners are up to behind the town hall, they will be there to tell you all about it.  Members of the Orchard Group will also be on hand to talk about the Donkeyfield com­munity orch­ard on Brunstane Road, and tell you how you can get involved.

For those of you who are really addicted to veg­gies there will be a crafty corner where you can learn to knit your own veget­able accessories!

Then at 2:30 our pan­el of experts will take to the stage to answer your ques­tions.  Questions will be chosen from those pos­ted on the ques­tion board thoughout the day.

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Energy Fair in Town Hall 10th July

Posted on June 10, 2010 | Comments Off on Energy Fair in Town Hall 10th July

Please come along to our Energy fair in Portobello Town Hall. Between 11am and 4pm there will be altern­at­ive energy demos includ­ing bicycle powered music and smooth­ie mak­ing. You will be able to get energy advice, inform­a­tion on renew­able energy for your home, and advice on insu­la­tion grants.

Find out about about PEDAL’s  renew­able energy plans, and oppor­tun­it­ies to get involved in PEDAL projects.

There will also be inform­a­tion about PEDAL food pro­jects, as well as com­post­ing and waste reduc­tion tips.

Not for­get­ting a fant­ast­ic prize draw, with a first prize of an A rated energy effi­cient fridge freez­er, plus oth­er great energy-sav­ing gadgets!

Hope to see you there.

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